{"id":217,"date":"2008-01-28T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2008\/01\/28\/life-insurance-for-hiv-in-south-a"},"modified":"2008-01-28T00:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:55:47","slug":"life-insurance-for-hiv-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2008\/01\/28\/life-insurance-for-hiv-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Life insurance for HIV+ in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I belatedly discovered podcasts in my final weeks in Mbarara (Uganda) last December.&nbsp; Two series, PRI radio programs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/?q=taxonomy\/term\/7\">Health<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/?q=taxonomy\/term\/5\">Technology<\/a>, have short stories that may interest readers.&nbsp; The Health coverage includes a subset of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/?q=taxonomy\/term\/27\">HIV-specific podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/?q=node\/8898\">story from March 2007<\/a> reported on the new life insurance market for HIV+ residents in South Africa signaling a dramatic shift in access to HIV treatment. Interestingly, life insurance can be one requirement for securing a home mortgage.&nbsp; According to the report, until recently without a life insurance policy, even well-off HIV+ individuals would have had a more difficult time trying to buy a home.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I belatedly discovered podcasts in my final weeks in Mbarara (Uganda) last December.&nbsp; Two series, PRI radio programs on Health and Technology, have short stories that may interest readers.&nbsp; The Health coverage includes a subset of HIV-specific podcasts. One story from March 2007 reported on the new life insurance market for HIV+ residents in South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}